The List:

Books in the Bookstore!

Let's begin with the biggie. That would be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

I did not go to the bookstore at midnight; I am not that big an HP fan. I went the next afternoon, a Saturday, and read the book in three and a half or four hours. I confess, I did not read the long long parts where HarryHermioneandRon are wandering around wondering what to do with any great attention, but, well, they were long long and dull. I didn't like it supermuch; a lot of it felt like a very ex post facto explanation of things which had gone before, and really, now, in the last book, you are going to introduce these marvelous artifacts the Deathly Hallows, which have never been whispered of before, despite their Awesome Powahz and the fact that two of them have been hidden in plain sight (if you can say that of an Invisibility Cloak) the whole time?

I shake my head in bemusement, J.K. Rowling. If you care to cry all the way to the bank, this is your cue.

Anyway. I read the book. Then I went dancing and my date was upset to learn I was done already.

I did not know quite what to make of that.